As you enter this home, a 900 sqf, two-plus-one bedroom condominium apartment, you can’t help but notice the “cargo container” – probably the most outstanding design feature in the home! It appears to sit right in the middle of the living room, but the effect is created by cladding two adjacent walls with metal hoarding panels used in construction sites.
Designed by Stan Tham of KNQ Associates, the interiors are filled with street-inspired design and pop art, such as the colourful triptych of prints by British artist Eelus that hang on the wall next to the couch.
For the open dining area, the designer customised a curved bench that brings to mind urban street seating using concrete-look laminate from Lamitak, and sourced the street lamp from a shop in Balestier.
In the second bedroom, blue, yellow and red Lego base plates - an unusual choice of carpentry finishing material - are used in the design of the cabinets, which has a structured geometric form, giving it a Piet Mondrian-evocative look.
In the master bedroom, the feature wall behind the bed is made of unexpected materials such as a green rug from Ikea, chosen for its resemblance to grass, and monochrome wood-look tiles with diagonal stripes, motifs that evoke patterns found on roads and street barricades.
The bathroom has a monochromatic theme and features an eye-catching Fornasetti-inspired customised decal on the mirror, for a playful touch.
Like the first home, this home too features a “shipping container” in an eye-catching cyan. However, this “container” actually holds the bomb shelter, which is now used as a storeroom. The walls were clad in metal and given a long bar as a handle, and then stencilled with the owner’s name, who lives by himself.
The owner of this 1,100 sqf, two bedroom condominium apartment in Farrer Park loves home accessories, so his interior designer Cadine Lim of Prozfile proposed an industrial-inspired look as a stylish canvas for his many treasured buys.
Concrete was spread over the original floor tiles in the balcony to match the theme of the home. Elvis loves the balcony, as it gives him a great view of the city.